This week, the teams had spare time to prepare for the first big presentation of the semester. There were a couple of issues that needed to be solved with the whole 12th-scale team. The main source of communication, which is an online chat website called Slack, was established between the whole 12th-scale team. Everyone established that the teams needed to communicate due to the many components of the whole 12th-scale Spartan Superway Project. My team, the 12th-scale track team, talked about some of the design specifications that the bogey team since they are the main team that the track team will be collaborating with. The remainder of the time, the track team spent time gathering contact information and information about everyone's preliminary designs and working on the presentation for next week.
On Monday, the team met up and needed to address some of the issues that we had with the welder. Kevin was in constant communication with administration and Dan (from full-scale bogey) to ensure we were taking the correct course of action. Kevin and I took a trip to Praxair to retrieve a new tank of Argon for the remaining welds. After coming back and setting up the welder, I started and finished the welds necessary for the support structures. I encountered some issues during this process as I never found the correct way to properly weld these two components together due to the differences in thickness of the square tubing and the sheet metal. If I utilize too high of a current, the sheet metal would have a hole burnt through. However, if the current was too low, there would be no penetration of the square tubing. Even after completing 80 welds, this process was not mastered and still need to be cleaned up through other methods that will be looked into.
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